DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a validation system used to check that an email has been sent by an authenticated person or email server. An electronic signature is attached to the header of the message using a private cryptographic key. When the email message is received, a public key that’s available in the global DNS database is used to verify who actually sent it and whether the content has been edited in some way. The primary job of DKIM is to impede the widespread spam and scam emails, as it makes it impossible to forge an email address. If an email is sent from an email address claiming to belong to your bank, for instance, but the signature doesn’t match, you will either not get the message at all, or you will get it with a warning alert that most likely it is not genuine. It depends on email providers what exactly will happen with an email message which fails to pass the signature check. DKIM will also offer you an added layer of protection when you communicate with your business associates, for instance, as they can see for themselves that all the e-mails that you send are authentic and have not been meddled with in the meantime.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Web Hosting
The DomainKeys Identified Mail functionality is pre-activated for all domain names that are hosted in a web hosting account on our cloud servers, so you won’t have to do anything on your end to turn it on. The only condition is that the given domain name should be hosted in a web hosting account on our end using our NS and MX records, so that the e-mail messages will go through our email servers. The private encryption key will be created on the server and the TXT record, which includes the public key, will be published to the DNS database automatically, so you will not have to do anything manually on your end in order to enable this option. The DomainKeys Identified Mail email authentication system will permit you to send trustworthy email messages, so if you are sending a newsletter or offers to customers, for instance, your email messages will always reach their target viewers, whereas unauthorized 3rd parties won’t be able to spoof your email addresses.
DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you opt for any of the Linux semi-dedicated service that we are offering, you will be able to use the DomainKeys Identified Mail protection service with any domain name that you register through your brand-new semi-dedicated account without any manual setup, as our innovative cloud web hosting platform will create all the compulsory records automatically, provided that the domain name uses our name servers. The latter is needed for a TXT resource record to be set up for the domain, as this is how the public cryptographic key can become available in the global DNS database. The private key will also be added automatically to our email servers, so whenever you send a new message, it will have our system’s e-signature. The number of spam email messages keeps growing every year and quite frequently forged email addresses are used, but when you make use of our web hosting services, you and your customers or colleagues will not need to worry about that.